PaddleOCR

OCR Buddy, a free and open-source Chrome extension, provides fully local OCR for code, formulas, and tables using PaddleOCR's PP-OCRv5 on ONNX Runtime Web, ensuring no data leaves the user's machine a…

Baidu released PP-OCRv6, a family of OCR models scaling from 1.5M to 34.5M parameters, supporting 50 languages. The medium model achieves 86.2% detection Hmean and 83.2% recognition accuracy, improvin…

PaddleOCR 3.5 introduces a more flexible inference-engine interface, allowing developers to select the backend (including Transformers) via the `engine` parameter and configure backend-specific option…